Back in October, a group shut down the Roebling Bridge when they climbed on it to hang a banner protesting P&G. In Wednesday's protest, the group refused requests to leave, but police say they ...

Roebling, Clay Wade took on another couple thousand. But really it was Taylor Southgate taking on 18,000 and Brent Spence taking on another 15,000." The bridge closure is also increasing traffic ...

This bridge has eight spans 188 feet long, and the cables are 4 inches in diameter. Mr. Roebling contracted, in 1848, to erect four suspension aqueducts on the line of the Delaware and Hudson ...

Roebling had built many of the world's longest bridges -- including the Brooklyn Bridge, 52 years earlier. The firm had devised the most efficient strength-to-rigidity ratio for cables.